WHITACRE, John Jefferson, a Representative from Ohio;
born in Decatur, Burt County, Nebr., December 28, 1860;
attended the public schools, Hiram (Ohio) College, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor;
engaged as a manufacturer of hollow building tile;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912;
unsuccessful candidate in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915);
resumed his former manufacturing pursuits;
president of the Whitacre Engineering Co. and the Whitacre-Greer Fireproofing Co.;
died in Miami, Fla., December 2, 1938;
interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Magnolia, Ohio.